He Who Is Too Well Off

This line is drawn from the moral universe of the Grimms' fairy tales, collected across multiple editions of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (first published 1812, with the definitive seventh edition in 1857). Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm drew on oral traditions across the German states, and many of their tales return to the theme of human restlessness and discontent — the peasant who wishes for a sausage and wastes his three wishes, the fisherman's wife who wants ever more from the magical flounder.